The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) encourages employers to adopt a common-sense approach to managing health and safety; this is essential to any business operation. As an employer, you have …
How to Ensure Your First Aiders are Correctly Trained
First aiders need to act confidently, promptly and correctly should they be called into action. They may need to make instant decisions that can have far reaching consequences for the …
8 Tips for Reducing the 28 Million Working Days Lost to Ill Health
I’m sure employee care is important to your business, but does preventing ill health receive the same attention or allocation of resources as ensuring staff safety? Sickness absence is a …
£30k Penalty for Failing to Remedy Electrical Defects: Ensure You Act on Inspection Reports
A Harrogate hotelier has been prosecuted for putting lives at risk when she failed to remedy a number of electrical defects in two of her hotels. Yoko Banks was fined …
£200k Fine for Fire Safety Failings: 9 Tips to Help Ensure YOU Comply
London Fire Brigade have successfully prosecuted the former owner of a Bayswater hotel after he put the lives of customers at risk by disregarding fire safety legislation. Salim Patel was …
£80,000 Fine for Paint Manufacturer after Worker Suffers Burns
A Manchester-based paint manufacturing company has been prosecuted after a worker suffered burns whilst cleaning the floor within the premises. The employee of HMG Paints Ltd was using a highly …
£135k Penalty for Care Home after Resident Dies: Ensure Your Risk Assessments Cover Non-Employees
The owner of a care home has been fined £100,000, plus £35,000 in costs, after health and safety failings lead to a resident dying from burns from a radiator pipe …
7 Common Risk Assessment Mistakes and How To Avoid Them
What are the most common mistakes organisations make and, even more importantly, how can you avoid falling into the same traps? Pitfall 1: Missing or Incomplete AssessmentsDo your risk assessments …
6 Action Steps to Identify and Control Workplace Hazards
Regular health and safety inspections will enable you to identify hazards and deal with them before they go on to cause an accident. What’s more, they should confirm you are …
The Painful Truth About Office Back Pain
It is a shocking fact that 80% of us will suffer from serious back pain at some time in our lives. If you have experienced a back problem, you will …